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Nat Raha: NINES
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
10am PT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET / 6pm GMT / 7pm CET
via zoom / sliding scale registration here
In this workshop, Nat will introduce the contemporary poetic form of the niner, the nine-line, nine-syllable poem, adopted for her recent book apparitions (nines). Developed by the poet Mendoza and taken up by various experimental writers in the UK, the form operates through a perverse, queer and brash constraint that undermines the metrics of formal anglophone poetry. In the workshop, Nat will share thinking and questions behind the form – including its potential to enable minoritised dialects, subcultures and worlds. We’ll spend time writing (or editing) work into the form, and considering how it can enable shaping and reshape interruptions.
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Dr Nat Raha is a poet and activist-scholar. Her work is of an experimental queer lyric, attending to the everyday of marginalised life, hirstories of struggle and resistance to racial capitalism. She works through de/re/materialising sound, form and syntax, on the page and in performance.
Her books of poetry include apparitions (nines) (Nightboat Books, 2024), of sirens, body & faultlines (Boiler House Press, 2018), and countersonnets (Contraband Books, 2013). With Mijke van der Drift, Nat is co-author of Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds (Pluto Press, 2024, finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards 2025), and co-editor of Radical Transfeminism zine.
Nat’s poetry is anthologised in 100 Queer Poems and We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics. Her work has been translated in numerous languages. Nat’s critical and creative writing has also appeared in Transgender Marxism (Pluto Press, 2021), Social Text, The Funambulist, The Brooklyn Rail, Poem-a-Day, Tripwire and more. Her performance work includes epistolary (on carceral islands), co-commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival, Scotland and TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, Ireland, 2023. She teaches in Fine Art Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art.
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